Re: [microsound] [OT] urination (eno/duchamp)

[Kurt Ralske <kranning@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Suppose for a minute that Eno didn't actually do this -- he just thought up
the idea, then said he did it. What a great strategy! How much time + effort
would you save by keeping conceptual art conceptual?

Realizing projects is just busywork, to convince non-believers. Great Art is
elsewhere....with my homework that the dog ate.



> i missed the beginning of this discussion, but the message from ian andrews
> reminded me a funny story involving brian eno and marcel duchamp.
> eno who is an admirer of duchamp, went to see a retrospective of the artist
> in a museum in which the famous urinal called "fountain" was exposed.
> but eno had a quite strange idea in mind. he actually wanted to make the
> urinal to return to its primary function.
> of course, eno could'nt come to the exhibit and simply piss in the fountain.
> so he imagined an ingenious system to accomplish his crazy plan.
> he came back to the museum with a plastic bag filled with his own urina; the
> bag was hidden under his coat; and with the help of a thin tube attached to
> the bag, he succeeded in pouring his fluid inside duchamp's piece of art,
> making 
> the "urinal" to become again an urinal.
> 
> eno related this episode in an interview that he gave to a french tv channel.


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